Publisher: Ace

🎧 An Instruction in Shadow by Benedict Jacka @BenedictJacka‏ @WillMWatt @AceBooksPub @BerkleyPub @orbitbooks @PRHAudio ‏#LoveAudiobooks

🎧 An Instruction in Shadow by Benedict Jacka @BenedictJacka‏ @WillMWatt @AceBooksPub  @BerkleyPub @orbitbooks @PRHAudio  ‏#LoveAudiobooks

I loved the first book, An Inheritance of Magic so I was excited to read more. Over the past year, Benedict Jacka has done a series of information on the aspects of the magic in this world from the element types, to the Houses, to the skill levels, etc.  I read all these before starting […]

Posted October 15, 2024 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 20 Comments

🎧 Lightning in Her Hands by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland @poet_raquelvgil‏ #MarcellaBlack @AceRocBooks @BerkleyPub @PRHAudio ‏#LoveAudiobooks

🎧 Lightning in Her Hands by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland @poet_raquelvgil‏ #MarcellaBlack @AceRocBooks  @BerkleyPub  @PRHAudio  ‏#LoveAudiobooks

I listened to the first book in the Wild Magic series immediately before starting Lightning in Her Hands which is the second one.   The series is about three sisters with magical gifts.  Witch of Wild Things is about Sage, the oldest, who is a plant whisperer.  Now we have the story of Teal, who affects […]

Posted October 10, 2024 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 12 Comments

🎧 The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by CM Waggoner @CMWaggoner2 #CindyPiller @AceBooksPub @PRHAudio #LoveAudiobooks

🎧 The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by CM Waggoner @CMWaggoner2 #CindyPiller @AceBooksPub @PRHAudio  #LoveAudiobooks

Any story with a main character librarian is worth considering. Sherry moved about 6 years ago to take the position in Winesap, New York.  She has had quite a run on solving mysteries of town murders recently.  She enjoys being good at it.  I liked Sherry and her personal journey throughout the story. Her sort of […]

Posted September 22, 2024 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 15 Comments

🎧 The Night Ends with Fire by KX Song #KXSong @natalienaudus @AceRocBooks @PRHAudio @BerkleyPub #LoveAudiobooks

🎧 The Night Ends with Fire by KX Song #KXSong @natalienaudus @AceRocBooks @PRHAudio @BerkleyPub #LoveAudiobooks

Mulan is one of my favorite Disney movies so I looked forward to this retelling.  Be forewarned The Night Ends with Fire is not the feel good version. The basics of the plot are similar.  The details are much grittier and more misogynistic.  This time period allows women nothing.   Meilin is to be married off […]

🎧 In Our Stars by Jack Campbell #JackCampbell @aemmes #TimFannon @AceRocBooks @berkleypub @recordedbooks #LoveAudiobooks

🎧 In Our Stars by Jack Campbell #JackCampbell @aemmes #TimFannon  @AceRocBooks @berkleypub @recordedbooks #LoveAudiobooks

I’m a big fan of this author’s military / political space opera with the Lost Fleet.  In Our Stars has some of that feel but is more in the Science Fiction Romance genre which felt weird. The romance was not typical to a romance novel.  Other aspects were more similar with politics, aliens, and inexplicable […]

🎧 The Hunter’s Daughter by Nicola Solvinic @NSolvinic @SamanthaDesz @AceRocBooks @PRHAudio @BerkleyPub #LoveAudiobooks

🎧 The Hunter’s Daughter by Nicola Solvinic  @NSolvinic @SamanthaDesz @AceRocBooks @PRHAudio @BerkleyPub #LoveAudiobooks

I really enjoyed listening to this police procedural but much more.  Anna is a police detective of fairly high rank.   When murders which resemble her father’s crimes of 20 years ago, she starts remembering that time.  We follow her point of view with the present of wanting to figure out the crime, and the past […]

🎧 The Book That Broke The World by Mark Lawrence @mark__lawrence #JessicaWhittaker @AceRocBooks @PRHAudio @BerkleyPub #LoveAudiobooks

🎧 The Book That Broke The World by Mark Lawrence @mark__lawrence #JessicaWhittaker @AceRocBooks @PRHAudio @BerkleyPub #LoveAudiobooks

Now the Library trilogy continues.  In the first book,  Livira and Evar meet and get to know each other.  They find that although their species are at war, they can love each other.   They are separated at the end, Livira amd Malar end up as assistants and goes back in time to help Evar and […]

Posted April 11, 2024 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 20 Comments